David Davidovich
Well-Known Member
From post #99 in another thread, @Ehav4Ever said:
Therefore, @Ehav4Ever, your quote above brought to mind a question that I have had for a while, therefore, what I would like to ask you and other Jews and Torath Mosheh Jews: What is your viewpoint or the Jewish commentaries' viewpoint as to why Hashem allowed a Jewish diaspora to occur and for Jewish texts and ideas to be lost, or in shambles and fragments, and difficult to find and put together? That doesn't seem to make sense to me.
To put it simply. Until the state of Israel was established most Jewish communities were in heavy survival mode with some communities having little or no contact between them, due to the exile. Of course, there are some communities that had more contact than others but certain ideas took months if not years to be tranfer information of ideas. Yet, when the Modern State of Israel was founding there was a hard process of performing mass immigrations of Jewish communities from around the world. This of course allowed Jewish communities that may have had little to no contact with other, due to distance, to basically be right on top of each other.
Now, for decades there has been lots of research into the traditions of all ancient Jewish communities. Most of the best of this research is in Hebrew, for obvious reasons.
Further, there are some though, influenced by Western culture, who see anything that is originally Jewish from Jewish culture to be of no culturally worth. There are some who saw anything that was anciently Jewish as a something to steal and profit off of. There is a good video in Hebrew about this about people who stole ancient Torah scrolls, books, etc. from Yemenite Jews when they were brought to the Modern State of Israel. The people who stole these items then went and sold them either on the black market or to antiquities collectors and musuems. In this one video a Yemenite Jewish man described how when he was a kid and family immagrated here, his father gave him a book that had been in their family for generations to hold on to. When they were at the port, a man came up to him and asked to look at the book. He didn't think anything of it and he let the man see the book. The man ran off with the book. Years later, when the Yemenite man grew older he saw the stolen book at a book store and when he tried to tell the shop owner that the book belonged to his family and had his family's name signed in it the man warned that he would call the police on him. The Yemenite man went to the police and the police verbally abused him and told him to get out.
Further, the Iraqi Jewish community before leaving Iraq faced a situation where saddam huisan stole a large amount of documents from the Jewish community. See the following video with what happened when the Iraqi Jewish community tried to get those documents back.
Therefore, @Ehav4Ever, your quote above brought to mind a question that I have had for a while, therefore, what I would like to ask you and other Jews and Torath Mosheh Jews: What is your viewpoint or the Jewish commentaries' viewpoint as to why Hashem allowed a Jewish diaspora to occur and for Jewish texts and ideas to be lost, or in shambles and fragments, and difficult to find and put together? That doesn't seem to make sense to me.